University of Pennsylvania Finding Aidshttp://dla.library.upenn.edu:80/dla/ead/search.html?fq=date_facet%3A%221980s%22%20AND%20subject_person_facet%3A%22Scott%2C%20Alexander%22&Search in the University of Pennsylvania Finding Aidshttp://dla.library.upenn.edu:80/dla/ead/ead.html?fq=date_facet%3A%221980s%22%20AND%20subject_person_facet%3A%22Scott%2C%20Alexander%22&id=EAD_upenn_museum_PUMu1061Anne Bowbeer Alexander Scott Collection
<b>Creator:</b>
Scott, Alexander; <br/>
<b>Date:</b>
1883-2014; <br/>
<b>Summary:</b>
Alexander Scott was born in 1854 in Camberwell, Surrey, the son of the famed British portrait painter for the Illustrated London News, Thomas Dewel Scott. He became known as a world traveler, landscape painter and collector of Asian antiquities. This collection was donated to the Penn Museum in 2011 by Anne Bowbeer, the wife of Alexander Scott's nephew, following the death of Mabel Scott Hall, Alexander Scott's widow